The Writer's Notebook & Portfolios
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At the beginning of the year, each student is given a blank composition book. After bringing pictures and other special mementos from home, students personalize the notebooks in order to make them their own.
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Click here to see us personalizing our Writer's Notebooks Look at our Writers' Notebooks
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These renovated notebooks become a place for students to "grow" ideas and develop their writer's craft. Students use the skills they learn during the Writing Workshop mini-lessons to improve their writing and create new stories. |
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It is from these notebooks that students choose one entry each month that they want to publish. After sharing the entries and receiving feedback from members of their writing clubs, students take these entries out of the notebook so that they can be revised and improved. |
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 Once a draft has been completed and students have conferenced with me in the final step of the editing/revising process, students choose a special themed paper on which to publish their final copy of the story. The Writing Center is stocked with a variety of decorated paper on which lines have been printed for students to write. |
The final story then becomes part of the students' Writing Portfolios. |
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At the end of the year, students choose their
favorite story or a new story to publish in a hard cover book.
Parents volunteer to type the stories, and students glue the typed text
into the pages of their books. They then become the illustrator and
publish the book for all students in the classroom to read. Read about our Author Publication Celebration |
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Personalizing the Notebooks
Using the Notebooks
Publishing
